IP: Mail Culture -- includes Farber quotes

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

By RON KAMPEAS
Associated Press Writer

October 17, 2001, 11:31 AM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Greeting cards may lose their envelopes and become glorified 
-- and powder-proof -- postcards. Your e-mail file may grow. Hackers once 
made online billing a hard sell; terrorists are making it popular.

It's too early to say for sure how the anthrax scare will affect how we get 
stuff from one person or business to another, but delivery professionals 
predict that alternatives to enveloped mail will benefit.

The post office is clearly worried about anthrax-infected letters that have 
been discovered in New York and Washington. Also, an anthrax-tainted letter 
is suspected of fatally infecting a Florida man; and envelopes containing 
suspicious powders -- mostly hoaxes -- have been reported by nervous 
citizens nationwide.

"If people just use prudent judgment, use common sense, there is nothing to 
fear," Postmaster General Jack Potter said Wednesday on NBC's "Today." "The 
mail is safe."
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> http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-anthrax-mail-safe1017oct17.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines


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